• yesman@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Their is an old joke from Ireland, during The Troubles.

    A man drives up to a checkpoint and the guard in the balaclava and holding an FAL asks: are you a Catholic or a Protestant? (this would reveal your allegiance to the Republicans or the Loyalists).

    The man answers: I’m and atheist.

    The rifleman responds: Yes, yes, but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?

    This is funny to the heretic because we’re still culturally attached to our sect. I read the book; I sat in the pews; I sang the songs. I’m a Protestant atheist and that Catholic shit will always be foreign and weird.